[ncc-regional-middle-east] Regional Peering

Thanks Salim For this good news.
This clearly highlights that we have very effective people in this list.
Let us keep up this good work and more team work and corporation for the 
benefits of our communities.

Salim Bader Al Mazrui wrote:

> Dear colleagues;
>
> I have been following up on the discussions going on and I wanted to 
> inform you'll that Omantel has established peering with Etisalat on 
> Wednesday 24th May using 5 x E1 links. We are only announcing our 
> local networks to each other. In the business sector, many 
> establishments communicate with their regional offices in the middle 
> east over the Internet.  We are presently seeing over 4 Mbps traffic 
> after establishing the peer.
>
> Regards
>
> Salim Bader Al-Mazrui
> Director Informatics Unit
> Networks & Technology
> Oman Telecommunications Company
>
> Tel: +968-631881
> Fax: +968-695482
> GSM: +968-99423279
>
>
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: ncc-regional-middle-east-admin at ripe.net on behalf of John Leong
> Sent: Fri 5/26/2006 8:27 PM
> To: mawan at cmu.edu; 'Salman Al-Mannai'; 'Fahad AlShirawi'; 'Saleem 
> Albalooshi'
> Cc: ncc-regional-middle-east at ripe.net; MAJEED at qtel.com.qa
> Subject: Re: [ncc-regional-middle-east] Regional Peering
>
> Re: [ncc-regional-middle-east] Regional PeeringInteresting point from 
> Malik.  VoIP. 
>
> My initial feeling is even if the routing between GCC countries 
> through US is totally inefficient from engineering point of view, but 
> if most of the data IP traffic is really not between the GCC country, 
> we may not care. 
>
> However, if VoIP is to be a significant service, then I suspect there 
> may be a lot of VoIP traffic between GCC countries. 
>
> In which case, one may pay attention to ITU recommendation G.114 on 
> One-way Transmission Time (note: not round trip) and its effect on 
> voice services.  It suggests to keep the one way latency to under 150 
> ms.  150 - 400 ms is acceptable depending on application.  Anything 
> above 400 ms is not acceptable.
>
> Regards,
> John
>
>
>   ----- Original Message -----
>   From: Malik Awan
>   To: 'Salman Al-Mannai' ; 'Fahad AlShirawi' ; 'Saleem Albalooshi'
>   Cc: 'John Leong' ; ncc-regional-middle-east at ripe.net ; 
> MAJEED at qtel.com.qa
>   Sent: Thursday, May 25, 2006 3:03 PM
>   Subject: RE: [ncc-regional-middle-east] Regional Peering
>
>
>   So far we have seen latency of up to 600ms (900ms not seen yet) 
> within the region, which is not good for VoIP traffic.
>
>   
>
>   Regards,
>
>   
>
>   Malik
>